Kantei

Bibliography and credits

Sources

The sources consulted on 4 October 2026, grouped by type, and the credits for all the images. Only the sources that do not sell swords are linked; the others served to check facts, but they are neither cited nor linked.

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Sources

Museums and official databases

  1. ColBase: katana of 1629 signed 武蔵大掾藤原忠広 (Musashi Daijō Fujiwara Tadahiro), Tokyo National Museum, F-19997
  2. ColBase: katana of 1600 signed 肥前国忠吉 (Hizen no kuni Tadayoshi), Tokyo National Museum, F-19868
  3. ColBase: wakizashi signed 武蔵大掾藤原忠広 (Musashi Daijō Fujiwara Tadahiro), Tokyo National Museum, F-20247
  4. ColBase: katana with a mounting of clouds and cranes, Tokyo National Museum, F-336
  5. ColBase: katana signed with Munenaga, Tokyo National Museum, F-20193
  6. ColBase: katana with the invocation to Kannon, Tokyo National Museum, F-335
  7. ColBase: katana signed 武蔵大掾藤原忠廣 (Musashi Daijō Fujiwara Tadahiro), Kyūshū National Museum, F5
  8. ColBase: katana signed 肥前国住人忠吉作 (Hizen no kuni jūnin Tadayoshi saku), Kyūshū National Museum, F17
  9. Bunka Isan Online: katana of 1630, Chōkokan Museum (Saga)
  10. Bunka Isan Online: katana of 1629, Tokyo National Museum
  11. Bunka Isan Online: katana of the second Tadahiro, Tokyo National Museum
  12. Bunka Isan Online: blades by Hizen Tadayoshi

NBTHK

  1. NBTHK, Sword Journal no. 745 (February 2019)
  2. Japanese Sword Museum: list of the 2020 exhibition (Jūyō Tōken with Munenaga)

Encyclopaedias and dictionaries

  1. 肥前忠広 (Hizen Tadahiro), Japanese Wikipedia
  2. 刀剣の業物一覧 (tōken no wazamono ichiran), Japanese Wikipedia
  3. List of Wazamono, English Wikipedia
  4. 埋忠明寿 (Umetada Myōju), Japanese Wikipedia
  5. 陸奥守吉行 (Mutsu no Kami Yoshiyuki), the sword of Sakamoto Ryōma, Japanese Wikipedia
  6. 肥前忠吉 (Hizen Tadayoshi), Nihon Jinmei Daijiten+Plus, on Kotobank

Researchers

  1. Japanese Sword Index, “Hizen-tō”
  2. Japanese Sword Index, “Shintō”

Image credits

  1. Katana of 1629, an Important Art Object (katana-1629.jpg)

    Tokyo National Museum, via ColBase · ColBase terms of use.
  2. The upper half of the 1629 katana (katana-1629-kissaki.jpg)

    Tokyo National Museum, via ColBase · ColBase terms of use.
  3. The tang and the carvings of the 1629 katana (katana-1629-nakago.jpg)

    Tokyo National Museum, via ColBase · ColBase terms of use.
  4. Katana of 1600 (katana-1600.jpg)

    Tokyo National Museum, via ColBase · ColBase terms of use.
  5. The tang of the 1600 katana (katana-1600-nakago.jpg)

    Tokyo National Museum, via ColBase · ColBase terms of use.
  6. Katana signed 肥前国忠吉 (Hizen no kuni Tadayoshi), at an exhibition (katana-vitrina.jpg)

    SLIMHANNYA, via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0.
  7. The grave of the first Tadayoshi at the Shinkakuji (tumba-shinkakuji.jpg)

    Pekachu, via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0.
  8. Poster of the report on the Kashima exhibition (video-W56OOjx9Yu8.jpg)

    Still: サガテレビ (Saga Terebi), on YouTube.
  9. Poster of the report on the Chōkokan exhibition (video-40yxu3nu2zM.jpg)

    Still: サガテレビ (Saga Terebi), on YouTube.